#prototype festival

We spent two weeks seeing a ton of theater. This is our final report from the 2017 January NYC theater festivals. Jack, Liz, Diep and Lindsay discuss:

Blind Cinema, Britt Hatzius at COIL (2:00)

Black Light, Daniel Alexander Jones at Under The Radar (9:55)

[PORTO], Kate Benson at Exponential Festival (13:45)

anatomy theater, Composer David Lang and Librettists: Mark Dion & David Lang at PROTOTYPE (19:45)

Worktable, Kate McIntosh at COIL (26:30)

Ghost Rings, Tina Satter/Half Straddle at American Realness (36:22)

Gardens Speak, Tania El Khoury at Under The Radar (40:46)

Gemini Stars, Pioneers Go East Collective at Exponential Festival (46:46)

Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster, Nicola Gunn at COIL (51:19)

Real Magic, Forced Entertainment at COIL (57:20)

Angel’s Bone opened the Prototype festival of opera and theater on Wednesday night at the Three Legged Dog Art & Technology Center. Technically a world premiere performance Wednesday night, the work has been in development since 2010 and was shown in a preview at the 2014 Prototype festival. The years of incubation are evident. Angel’s Bone is a fully realized vision. Spare yet complex, the work is a wholly original parable on the danger of greed. The work of composer Du Yun ranges across musical genres, from medieval polyphony to punk, in a way that interweaves and juxtaposes the sacred and the profane without ever degrading to pastiche.

The third season of the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now festival opened ominously last week, with 31 young women dressed in black singing against the evil that can come with group control. Toxic Psalms, performed by the Carmina Slovenica vocal theater company of Slovenia for five performances at St. Ann’s Warehouse, was a powerful 90-minute collision of music — ranging from medieval to modern — accented by movement.

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